After Jagdeep Dhankhar’s high-profile exit, outsiders are likely to be kept away from sensitive assignments. Internal gate-keeping and stricter vetting of new entrants could be enforced.
The sudden resignation of Jagdeep Dhankhar as Vice President of India, on July 21, will trigger ripples across the political system. It will impact the fate of other lateral entrants to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from other parties, rekindle debate about ‘insiders vs outsiders’ in the party, and lead to a reassertion of centralised political control.
The most proximate reason for Dhankhar’s unceremonious departure according to media reports is that he pre-empted the government’s moves on the removal of Justice Yashwant Verma. Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju had announced, on July 20, a day before the Monsoon Session of Parliament, that over 100 signatures from across the ruling and opposition parties had been collected for the impeachment of Justice Verma. It was clear that the motion would be tabled in the Lok Sabha as a bipartisan move.
Despite this information being available in the public domain, Dhankhar chose to consider a motion sponsored only by Opposition MPs in the Rajya Sabha, a day after Rijiju’s announcement. For reasons best known to him, it looked like he was trying to steal a march on the government’s move in the Lok Sabha. By his actions Dhankhar gave the Opposition an upper hand in shaping the narrative about alleged corruption in the judiciary….
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/dhankhars-resignation-and-bjps-outsider-syndrome-3648025
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